Nvidia-backed robotics startup Generalist AI raises $400 million in a new funding round led by Radical Ventures, catapulting the company to a $2 billion valuation as it pushes to build advanced AI models that enable robots to tackle increasingly complex real-world tasks.
Microsoft launches the Surface Laptop Ultra, a sleek sub-4.5-pound powerhouse featuring a 15-inch mini-LED touchscreen, an NVIDIA chip delivering up to one petaflop of AI compute, and up to 128GB of unified memory, designed for creators and professionals demanding cutting-edge on-device AI performance.
Anthropic warns that AI recursive self-improvement could outpace human readiness while simultaneously raising $65 billion and filing for an IPO, exposing a stark contradiction between its safety concerns and aggressive financial expansion — all while Claude already writes over 80% of the company's own code.
NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a massive 550B-parameter AI model delivering frontier reasoning capabilities at 30% lower cost and 5x higher throughput than comparable open models, powered by cutting-edge hybrid architecture and a novel multi-teacher training method, with fully open weights released for enterprise adoption.
OpenAI is rolling out a powerful new 'Dreaming' memory system for ChatGPT that automatically synthesizes and updates user context in the background, giving Plus and Pro subscribers smarter, always-current conversations — with Free users set to gain access in the coming weeks.
A24's youngest director Kane Parsons, 20, slams generative AI as 'genuinely harmful' and a sign of 'cultural rot,' vowing to never use it creatively while planning to explore its societal impact in future films.
Miso Labs launches MisoTTS, an open-source 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model now live on Hugging Face, featuring voice cloning, highly emotive conversational speech, and built-in audio watermarking for safety.
A new open-source AI hiring agent launches on GitHub, capable of parsing resumes, analyzing GitHub activity, and delivering scored, explainable candidate evaluations using either local Ollama models or Google Gemini for flexible, privacy-conscious deployment.
Slack's Workflow Builder is transforming workplace productivity, now powering over 3 million daily automations and delivering up to 35% time savings, with companies like Wayfair reclaiming 25,000 hours annually and Canva slashing meeting times by over 90% using AI-driven, no-code automation tools.
Meta taps 28-year-old Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang to lead a secretive AI lab called TBD, assembling 100 elite researchers and releasing a competitive new model as Zuckerberg races to close the gap with OpenAI and Google — but internal tensions, setbacks, and rival speed are threatening to slow the …